Unlock Your Inner Calm

It's hard to refill, reset, and restore when your cortisol is out of control. This week's podcast is full of excellent and proven ways to reduce your cortisol and get a handle on regulating your nervous system. We're sharing 27 proven and effective ways to regulate your nervous system.

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The Hidden Dangers of Sugar

Denise is a woman on a wellness mission.  As a health coach with many certifications, she has been working tirelessly for a long time to help people in her personal life and beyond.


Kari: tell us how you got started living a more non-toxic living health coaching lifestyle.


Denise: At the start of my story, I was married and my husband at the time was going to Iraq.  I started having a lot of panic attacks.  At first they thought it was something adrenal or cancer, I had several scares initially.


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Hold On To Summer All Year Long

Are you holding your breath as we enter into August?  If you still have school aged kids, we’re having to think about the routines and schedules that smack us in the face after a weird, different, or relaxed summer. 


What if we did something a little different - what if we “Hold on to Summer All Year Long”? What if we take the freedom that often comes with summer and extend it all year long? I also know that as moms and homemakers, we’re getting set up for the wellness of our family: 

  • Spiritually

  • Mentally

  • Physically

  • Educationally 

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Quick Tips for Making All Natural Bug Spray

How to make natural bug spray - a topic of interest every summer!


How do you pick a plant for a bug spray when it varies depending on where you live and what bugs you’re dealing with?  You will want to have a general idea of what bugs are in your area because different bugs are repelled by different plants. 


Most bugs hate the smell of peppermint, which is an easy recommendation.  It’s great too because it’s a versatile oil that you can use for so many other purposes as well to get more bang for your buck.


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Nutrition Tips for the Brain!

Karin, a former lawyer turned functional medicine nutritionist.  She has been in the wellness space for the past 20 years.  She’s the daughter of a doctor who found herself grappling with two autoimmune disorders, but found limited success from the conventional route of medicine. 

Now she’s a culinary nutritionist who specializes in using food as an approach for wellness, in a family-friendly and accessible way.

In her clinic, she was seeing alarming statistics on the rise.  She saw an increase in cognitive issues for children.  In the US, 1 in 5 has mental health issues with a 43% increase in ADHD since COVID.  


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Spring Spruce Up

Spring has sprung - let’s spruce up some self care as we run head on into spring! 

Spring is special this year because it dawned early with Easter taking place the last week of March instead of mid-April. The hope of this blog is to spruce up some spring feelings because we all need a change of seasons.  Every season has its purpose and is beautiful in its own way. Coming out of winter, with Easter you may be reminded of the newness of life and the renewal that is available to us through a relationship with Jesus.  In a less significant way, spring is also a time to enter a renewal for mind, body, and home.

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Top 10 Essential Oils

Here are the TOP 10 essential oils for every home:

BUT FIRST YOU NEED TO KNOW HOW YOUR OILS ARE SOURCED.

Disclaimer: I am only talking about doTERRA essential oils where I know the strain of the plant, the sourcing, testing and purity. DO NOT use my tips with other essential oil brands! 

And the top 10 are:

Lemon, Lavender, Peppermint, Oregano, OnGuard, Frankincense, Digestzen, Tea Tree, Breathe, and Deep Blue

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Is There Balance in Health & Wellness?

We’re all striving for balance (it’s actually one of my favorite essential oils) but.... is it possible?!!!!?????

Balance between natural solutions and modern medicine?

Balance between using an oil for everything and never using natural solutions?

Balance between living naturally and being over the top about everything being 'bad'!?

Balance in eating healthy and indulging?

Balance in working out and rest days?

Balance in living 'healthy' and YOLO?!



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Proactive vs Reactive

On episode 184 of The Well Podcast, Kari sits down to chat with mom, pastor’s wife, and mental health therapist, Gianna Reese. Gianna specializes in work with teenagers and adults but provides services across the lifespan. Here is a teaser of the conversation.

Our world today is not without life’s stressors. While we may not be foraging to find our food or worried about a bear attack out in the wilderness, we still have scenarios that put us into fight, flight, or flee responses. Many people assume we are born with the skills needed to deal with life’s stressors, but we are not born with healthy emotional expression, boundary setting, or emotional intelligence tools.

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